SONAR.RogueAV!gen16

SONAR.RogueAV!gen16

Behavior

SONAR.RogueAV!gen16 is a heuristic detection that is designed to detect variants of known rogue antivirus programs.

Antivirus Protection Dates

Initial Rapid Release version
02 October 2014 revision 022

Latest Rapid Release version
02 October 2014 revision 022

Initial Daily Certified version
21 June 2011 revision 035

Latest Daily Certified version
21 June 2011 revision 035

Initial Weekly Certified release date
22 June 2011

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Symantec’s antivirus products contain an highly sensitive detection technology designed to detect entirely new risks without traditional signatures. This technology is aimed at detecting malicious software that has been intentionally mutated or morphed by attackers.

If one or more files on your computer have been classified as having a SONAR.RogueAV!gen16 risk, this indicates that the files have suspicious characteristics and therefore might contain a new or unknown risk. However, given the sensitive nature of this detection technology, it may occasionally identify non-malicious, legitimate software programs that also share these behavioral characteristics. Therefore, it is recommended that users manually check all files detected as SONAR.RogueAV!gen16 by Symantec antivirus products for potential misidentification, and submit any suspect files to Symantec Security Response for further analysis. For instructions on how to do this, read Submit Virus Samples
.

In rare cases where a legitimate file has been misidentified and subsequently quarantined, your computer may behave abnormally or you may find that one or more applications no longer function as expected. In such rare situations, you should open the Quarantine in your Symantec antivirus product. From here, you may review the list of all files detected as SONAR.RogueAV!gen16 and, if you identify a potential misidentification, restore the file from quarantine and allow it to run normally.

REMOVING A FILE FROM QUARANTINE
It is possible to restore a file from quarantine to its previous location on your computer. This should only be done if you are certain that the file is not malicious. Symantec strongly recommend that you submit the file that was detected as SONAR.RogueAV!gen16 even if you choose to restore the file from quarantine.

FOR BUSINESS USERS
If you are a Symantec business product user, we recommend you try the following resources to remove this risk.

Identifying and submitting suspect files
Submitting suspicious files to Symantec allows us to ensure that our protection capabilities keep up with the ever-changing threat landscape. Submitted files are analyzed by Symantec Security Response and, where necessary, updated definitions are immediately distributed through LiveUpdate™ to all Symantec end points. This ensures that other computers nearby are protected from attack. The following resources may help in identifying suspicious files for submission to Symantec.

2. Restoring settings in the registry
Many risks make modifications to the registry, which could impact the functionality or performance of the compromised computer. While many of these modifications can be restored through various Windows components, it may be necessary to edit the registry. See in the Technical Details of this writeup for information about which registry keys were created or modified. Delete registry subkeys and entries created by the risk and return all modified registry entries to their previous values.